{"id":29175,"date":"2012-03-19T07:43:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T11:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29175"},"modified":"2012-03-19T08:08:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T12:08:55","slug":"lawyers-and-ptsd-bullshit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29175","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers and PTSD Bullshit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The news today in regards to SSG Robert Bales, the sergeant who apparently murdered 19 Afghans last weekend, is that he’s meeting with his shyster lawyer, according to Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n

John Henry Browne flew to Kansas Sunday ahead of his first face-to-face meeting with the 10-year Army veteran, who is being held in an isolated cell at Fort Leavenworth’s military prison.<\/p>\n

Fort Leavenworth spokeswoman Rebecca Steed said Bales would be able to meet Browne in what is described as a privileged visit. Along with medical visits, such meetings are generally more private than others conducted in the prison.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That expert said charges were still being decided and that the location for any trial had not yet been determined. If the suspect is brought to trial, it is possible that Afghan witnesses and victims would be flown to the United States to participate, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Christian Science Monitor<\/a> reports that the legal team is planning a defense based on Bales’ supposed PTSD;<\/p>\n

The details will be unique to Sgt. Bales. But inevitably they boil down to what hundreds of thousands of GIs have experienced over 10 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan: the sometimes almost unbearable stress of violent combat and the strains of military life on individuals and their families.<\/p>\n

In Bales\u2019 case, according to initial reports from family members and the Seattle attorney they have engaged, that includes injuries during three previous tours in Iraq, witnessing at close hand the death and dismemberment of fellow soldiers, and financial difficulties on the home front at Joint Base Lewis McChord near Tacoma, Wash.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, “hundreds of thousands of GIs” who haven’t killed even one civilian, beat their wives, rammed their car into a bridge, pulled the trigger on themselves [insert your own attempt at violence that you haven’t committed]. “Unique to SSG Bales” is an understatement. I’m not going to speculate on what caused Bales to go downtown and blast away at innocents, but I do know that there are many people on this blog who suffer from PTSD and there’s not one who I wouldn’t welcome into my house without bothering to lock up my gun safe. I’d like to think this blog is part of their self medication, I know it’s part of mine. That’s why I don’t try to restrain discussion here.<\/p>\n

But I hope this cock-holster lawyer takes into account the “hundreds of thousands of GIs” who he’ll be affecting by calling the choices his client made “PTSD”. Of course, I’m hoping against hope here, but there’s always a chance.<\/p>\n

And for all of you visitors here who are trying to shame us into dialing back our criticism of SSG Bales and his f*ckstick lawyer, kindly GFY. While we sympathize with his family, nothing they ever wrote on their blog has anything to do with what he did, which is why I haven’t linked to it. <\/p>\n

We are professional soldiers who know bullshit when we see it…and this blog is an ongoing discussion of that bullshit. Save that “innocent until proven guilty” shit for the jury. We are not bound by the constitution here. And we’re all pretty pissed off that the choices that SSG Bales made will affect the people we care most about when they’re in Afghanistan…wanna talk about fairness? The people who’ve done their duty, stuck to their own lofty principles despite repeated tours of duty in the war against terror, are the ones who will ultimately pay the price for Bales’ actions. I can’t change that, but I will push back against attempts to smear them with a broadbrush like this dickweed lawyer will try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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